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One of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) is dedicated to helping visitors explore art and creativity through hands-on activities, extensive art collections, and world-class exhibitions. The Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building is an architectural work of art. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, it will change the way you experience art and architecture.

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Group ticket rates are available for parties of 10+. Reservations are required. Enhance your group visit with a guided tour. Private, docent-led tours are available with three weeks’ notice for an additional fee. Call (720) 913-0088 or email groupsales@denverartmuseum.org for more information.

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The DAM’s interactive studio has a brand new theme and fresh opportunities to get creative. The 3-D studio will explore the expansive and varied realm of 3-D art. Use your design thinking skills to build an abstract sculpture at our Purely...

3-D STUDIO<p>The DAM’s interactive studio has a brand new theme and fresh opportunities to get creative.</p>
<p>The 3-D studio will explore the expansive and varied realm of 3-D art. Use your design thinking skills to build an abstract sculpture at our Purely Paper activity, or draw inspiration from Stampede: Animals in Art to create your own animal at the Wound in Wire activity. In this studio, you can even become a part of the art—work together with family and friends to contribute to a collaborative sculpture designed by local artist Pam Fortner.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

A Walk in the Woods is a new family space that will be located in the Hamilton Building, level 3. Included with general admission (free for kids and free for members). Build freestanding horse sculptures inspired by artist Deborah...

A WALK IN THE WOODS<p>A Walk in the Woods is a new family space that will be located in the Hamilton Building, level 3. Included with general admission (free for kids and free for members).</p>
<p>Build freestanding horse sculptures inspired by artist Deborah Butterfield. What other animals can you create out of branch-like blocks?</p>
<p>Pick up a pair of binoculars and be the first to spot different birds in a colorful flock. Play alone, or challenge a friend.</p>
<p>Mix-and-match ears, wings, stripes, and tails to create unique animals. Use your imagination to bring these new creatures to life. How might they move, sound, or behave?</p>
<p>Put together a shadowbox to display all your favorite animals. Choose from the animal cards provided, or draw your own to add to your mini-menagerie!</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Xiaoze Xie has a lifelong passion for books. In his worldview, books are conveyers of prestige and signifiers of collective cultural knowledge: repositories of historical meaning, cultural conflict, and political strife. For Eyes On: Xiaoze...

EYES ON<p>Xiaoze Xie has a lifelong passion for books. In his worldview, books are conveyers of prestige and signifiers of collective cultural knowledge: repositories of historical meaning, cultural conflict, and political strife. For Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, the artist has created still-life paintings of books, videos, and installations based on banned and forbidden books in China.</p>
<p>Born in a small town in Guangdong Province, China, at the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1966, Xie now splits his time between studios in Beijing and Palo Alto, California, where he is the Paul L. &amp; Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University.</p>
<p>With Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, the Denver Art Museum initiates a series of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists who we believe should have fuller exposure to our audiences. Watch for new Eyes On rotations every six months in the Logan Gallery and Fuse Box in the Hamilton Building’s fourth floor.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Ganesha: The Playful Protector is developed in collaboration with the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, which is loaning a statue of Ganesha created in the 600s to 700s that is the centerpiece of the exhibition. The 29-inch tall...

GANESHA THE PLAYFUL PROTECTOR<p>Ganesha: The Playful Protector is developed in collaboration with the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, which is loaning a statue of Ganesha created in the 600s to 700s that is the centerpiece of the exhibition.</p>
<p>The 29-inch tall cross-legged figure, featuring human arms and an elephant head, is known as one of the earliest Ganesha icons in mainland Southeast Asia. This significant pre-Angkor artwork is on view along with sculptures, paintings, and textiles from the DAM’s own collection of ancient to modern representations of the Hindu deity.</p>
<p>Ganesha, who has been widely worshiped since the 400s, originated in India as a Hindu god who removes obstacles and is known for granting wealth and success. Ganesha has crossed both geographic and religious boundaries, inspiring numerous representations throughout the Asian subcontinent over time—all of which will be surveyed in the exhibition to showcase the iconographic changes of this popular god.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Explore how trade routes inspired and influenced art over time and across the Asian continent. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion will feature approximately 150 sculptures, ceramics, textiles, scrolls, and other multi-dimensional works...

LINKING ASIA<p>Explore how trade routes inspired and influenced art over time and across the Asian continent. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion will feature approximately 150 sculptures, ceramics, textiles, scrolls, and other multi-dimensional works from 20 countries that span 2,000 years.</p>
<p>Linking Asia will dive deeper into the exchange of ideas, beliefs, and techniques along the Silk Road trade routes, which profoundly affected the development of Asian art. The presentation will consider themes such as artistic inspiration and cross-cultural hybridization of styles, trade by land and sea, ink art trends in East Asia, and religious links before the twentieth century.</p>
<p>Works on view from the DAM’s Asian art collection will include visitor favorite Shiva, King of Dancers (Shiva Nataraja) and many on view for the first time, such as objects from three shipwrecks.</p>
<p>The exhibition is curated by Tianlong Jiao, Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art at the DAM. A catalog accompanying the exhibition will be the first major record of the DAM’s Asian art collection, which originated in 1915, and spans a period from the fourth millennium B.C. to the present. The catalog will be available in The Shop and online in winter 2017.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

This interactive and immersive installation by Denver artist Jaime Molina was born of imagination and the joy of discovery. Step into a different world where the paintings on the wall flow into 3-D objects that Molina created for the space....

Past the Tangled Present<p>This interactive and immersive installation by Denver artist Jaime Molina was born of imagination and the joy of discovery. Step into a different world where the paintings on the wall flow into 3-D objects that Molina created for the space. Sit on boxes painted with faces and play in a garden of fabricated cacti.</p>
<p>The installation will be enhanced as Molina works with groups to paint different sections of the mural throughout the year.</p>
<p>Fun for kids and adults alike, Past the Tangled Present is included in general admission, free for members and kids age 18 and younger.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

On weekends, connect to Denver’s creative community at our artist demonstrations. Every Saturday and Sunday is a new chance to see an artist at work on 3-D art, from sculpture, to 3-D printing, to drawings that turn 3-D right before your...

Barbara Gilhooly, Wire Sculpture<p>On weekends, connect to Denver’s creative community at our artist demonstrations. Every Saturday and Sunday is a new chance to see an artist at work on 3-D art, from sculpture, to 3-D printing, to drawings that turn 3-D right before your eyes!</p>
<p>Demonstrations take place on Saturdays and Sundays from noon&#8211;3 pm.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Steven Frost (fiber and installation artist) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an...

Untitled Final Fridays: Steven Frost<p>Steven Frost (fiber and installation artist)</p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

On weekends, connect to Denver’s creative community at our artist demonstrations. Every Saturday and Sunday is a new chance to see an artist at work on 3-D art, from sculpture, to 3-D printing, to drawings that turn 3-D right before your...

James Moulton, 3-D Ink Drawing<p>On weekends, connect to Denver’s creative community at our artist demonstrations. Every Saturday and Sunday is a new chance to see an artist at work on 3-D art, from sculpture, to 3-D printing, to drawings that turn 3-D right before your eyes!</p>
<p>Demonstrations take place on Saturdays and Sundays from noon&#8211;3 pm.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

On the first Saturday of every month, you can enjoy our art collections and non-ticketed exhibitions without spending a dime! Free general admission tickets are available on-site starting at 10 am. Some special exhibitions may require...

Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree live and work together—their lives are intertwined, and through that, they have learned to be completely truthful and honest with one another regardless of whether it is in intimacy or professionalism....

Creative Companionship<p>Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree live and work together—their lives are intertwined, and through that, they have learned to be completely truthful and honest with one another regardless of whether it is in intimacy or professionalism.</p>
<p>Their relationship began as a personal project entitled "Complements," which explores the universal strangeness of love. After unexpected success, they made the decision to start a studio together which faces the trials and tribulations of never being able to emotionally detach.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Following Uncorked Reserve (the museum’s annual fundraising event), Uncorked AFTERGLO is the museum’s annual party celebrating creativity. AFTERGLO attracts the next generation of stylish philanthropists for a night of art, dancing, and...

Uncorked AFTERGLO at the Denver Art Museum<p>Following Uncorked Reserve (the museum’s annual fundraising event), Uncorked AFTERGLO is the museum’s annual party celebrating creativity. AFTERGLO attracts the next generation of stylish philanthropists for a night of art, dancing, and celebrating, while raising crucial support for the Denver Art Museum.<br /><br />Vivid cocktail attire<br />Open bar<br />Late night fare<br /><br />$70 members<br />$80 for nonmembers<br /><br />Limited number of tickets available. Access included for Uncorked Reserve guests. Note that all Uncorked AFTERGLO tickets will be an additional $10 if purchased at the doors to the event. Tickets will be available for purchase online until 12 pm on Friday, April 13. AFTERGLO tickets are nonrefundable.<br /><br />To see pictures from past Uncorked events, please visit www.uncorked.shutterfly.com.<br />For more information about Uncorked, please contact Nora Miller at nmiller@denverartmuseum.org or 720-913-0030.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Suzi Q. Smith (spoken-word artist) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely...

Untitled Final Fridays: Suzi Q. Smith<p>Suzi Q. Smith (spoken-word artist)</p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Día del Niño (Day of the Child) festival is celebrated at the Denver Art Museum on April 29, 2018. Enjoy free admission, family-friendly programming, and live music and dances that celebrates children from around the world at the Denver Art...

Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer—the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work—will chronicle a pivotal moment in Gibson’s career when his contemporary artistic practice converged with his Native American heritage. About 65 objects...

Jeffrey Gibson - Like A Hammer<p>Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer—the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work—will chronicle a pivotal moment in Gibson’s career when his contemporary artistic practice converged with his Native American heritage. About 65 objects created from 2011 to the present will be featured including figurative works, text-based wall hangings, a significant selection of beaded punching bags, painted works on rawhide and canvas, and video.</p>
<p>The exhibition will show how Gibson draws upon his heritage and remixes his older works to create a visual vocabulary that explores his multi-faceted identity and the history of modernism. Gibson’s abstract works take inspiration from his Choctaw and Cherokee heritage, pan-Native American visual culture, alternative subcultures, and the artist’s experiences living abroad as well as popular culture. Striking patterned and textured works will incorporate text from poems, Gibson’s own voice, and song lyrics such as Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke.”</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Birdy (Denver art and culture magazine) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely...

Untitled Final Fridays: Birdy<p>Birdy (Denver art and culture magazine)</p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

New Territory: Landscape Photography Today is a survey of contemporary landscape photography from around the world. The exhibition of more than 80 photographs will gauge how artists stretch the boundaries of traditional landscape...

NEW TERRITORY LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY<p>New Territory: Landscape Photography Today is a survey of contemporary landscape photography from around the world. The exhibition of more than 80 photographs will gauge how artists stretch the boundaries of traditional landscape photography to reflect the environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values of our time.</p>
<p>The works revive historic photographic processes as well as use innovative techniques and unconventional equipment and chemistry to depict landscapes in surprising ways. Taken individually and as a whole, the photographs will show how nearly 40 artists have manipulated materials and processes for expressive purposes, blurring the distinction between "observed" and "constructed" imagery. The exhibition challenges us to see photography differently, and contemplate our complex relationship with the landscape.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Jordan Knecht (multimedia conceptual artist) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an...

Untitled Final Fridays: Jordan Knecht<p>Jordan Knecht (multimedia conceptual artist)</p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Gregg Deal (artist and activist) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely...

Untitled Final Fridays: Gregg Deal<p>Gregg Deal (artist and activist)</p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

The Flobots (hip hop artists and activists) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an...

Untitled Final Fridays: The Flobots<p><span>The Flobots</span><span> (hip hop artists and activists)</span></p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

The Denver Art Museum will be the sole venue for Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, which will showcase more than 100 prints, drawings, and paintings from Rembrandt van Rijn’s career spanning from 1625 to 1665. Unforgettable images of...

Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker<p>The Denver Art Museum will be the sole venue for Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, which will showcase more than 100 prints, drawings, and paintings from Rembrandt van Rijn’s career spanning from 1625 to 1665.</p>
<p>Unforgettable images of biblical, portrait, allegory, still life, landscape, and genre artworks of the time demonstrate the mastery that cemented Rembrandt as one of the greatest artists in history. The exhibition will show how Rembrandt used his view of the world around him to fuel his artistic journey, and will give a deeper understanding of his working habits as an artist, and moreover, as a printmaker.</p>
<p>The exhibition will take a close look at Rembrandt’s innovative approach to printmaking that combined the three principle methods of intaglio, including etching, drypoint and engraving. New scholarship about the artist will be presented, revealing how Rembrandt intentionally varied the states of his prints, ink, and exotic papers to create rarities that he knew his clients desired, demonstrating how he deliberately manipulated his prints for marketing and storytelling purposes.</p>
<p>An exhibition catalog will be available in The Shop and online in the fall of 2018.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Arthur Williams (floral artist) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different...

Untitled Final Fridays: Arthur Williams<p>Arthur Williams (floral artist)</p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Warm Cookies of the Revolution (civic health community organizers) Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience...

Untitled Final Fridays: Warm Cookies of the Revolution<p><span>Warm Cookies of the Revolution</span><span> (civic health community organizers)</span></p>
<p>Untitled Final Fridays just got even more creative. Each event is completely artist designed and delivered, highlighting each partner's unique talent and vision. Experience the museum in an entirely different way—every time.</p>
<p>Untitled is included in general admission. Members receive free admission to every Untitled event and all the special programming that happens inside. College students with valid ID receive 2-for-1 admission.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center

Dior: From Paris to the World surveys 70 years of the House of Dior's enduring legacy and its global influence. A selection of 150 couture dresses, as well as accessories, costume jewelry, photographs, drawings, runway videos, and other...

Dior: From Paris to the World<p><em>Dior: From Paris to the World</em> surveys 70 years of the House of Dior's enduring legacy and its global influence. A selection of 150 couture dresses, as well as accessories, costume jewelry, photographs, drawings, runway videos, and other archival material, will trace the history of the iconic haute couture fashion house, its founder, Christian Dior, and the subsequent artistic directors who carried Dior's vision into the 21st century.</p>100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy. Denver, COAmerica/North_Dakota/Center